AB Acquisition LLC and Supervalu Inc. Annouce Second Hacking Incident Involving Payment Card Data Processing

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By William Knowles @c4i
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
September 30, 2014

AB Acquisition LLC and Supervalu Inc. are the newest group of retailers 
that have been hit by security breaches this year. This includes Aaron 
Brothers, Bartell Hotels, CVS, eBay, Goodwill Industries International 
Inc., Home Depot, Jimmy Johns, Michaels Stores, Neiman Marcus, 
Recreational Equipment Inc., Sally Beauty Supply, and Sears.

On September 29, 2014, AB Acquisition LLC, which operates Albertsons 
stores under Albertson’s LLC and ACME Markets, Jewel-Osco, and Shaw’s and 
Star Markets under New Albertson’s, Inc., was notified by its third party 
IT services provider, Supervalu Inc. of a separate, more recent, attempted 
criminal intrusion seeking to obtain payment card information used in some 
of its stores. AB Acquisition been informed that a different malware was 
used in this recently discovered incident than was used in the incident 
previously announced on August 14, 2014. The investigations into both this 
incident and the earlier incident are ongoing.

Supervalu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) announced on September 29, 2014 that they also 
experienced a criminal intrusion into the portion of its computer network 
that processes payment card transactions at Supervalu’s Shop ’n Save, 
Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, four franchised Cub Foods stores in Hastings, 
Shakopee, Roseville (Har Mar) and White Bear Lake, MN, where 
implementation of the enhanced protective technology had not yet been 
completed.

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